If new legislation becomes law in Canada, citizens there could go to jail simply for exercising free speech against leftist dogma on social media platforms.
Sinopsis senior fellow Charles Burton described the “chilling effect” the proposed Canadian Online Harms Act could have on free speech on the Aug. 19 edition of The John Batchelor Show. While the parliamentary bill addresses child pornography and “revenge porn” online, it also requires social media platforms to “actively reduce the risk of exposure to harmful content on their services” and proposes prison sentences of up to life for free speech that subjectively qualifies as “disinformation” or is deemed harmful or hateful. The bill would result in government pressure on Big Tech to censor speech, according to Burton.
Burton told host Batchelor and his co-host — Fox News China expert…
